America ’s Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other critical environmental laws are only as good as their enforcement. Sadly, lax enforcement, regulatory abuse, preoccupations with profits and, in some cases, sheer negligence continue, exposing land, air, water and people to damage and destruction.
WHAT PUBLIC JUSTICE IS DOING
Public Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Project (EEP) uses citizen suits and other litigation to force compliance with the environmental laws and make polluters pay. On behalf of local communities and environmental organizations, the EEP has filed more than 30 citizen suits in 14 states to hold corporate wrongdoers accountable for their violations of federal environmental statutes regulating clean air, clean water, coal mining, and hazardous waste. Since 1998, the EEP has taken the lead in challenging the coal industry's destructive mountaintop removal mining practices in Appalachia.
See our Environmental Protection Case Index to learn how we are succeeding.
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